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I just had mine taken out two weeks ago. My band surgery is one week from now, so I have been eating little or no fat for a while now. My question is:

What foods upset your stomach now that your gall bladder is out?

Lettuce has been giving me fits, is this something that get better over time, or am I just stuck to a life with no salad?

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Ive had my gallbladder out for around 7 years...I dont really have many problems..but..iceberg lettuce does give me fits...I now prefer ceasar or spinach...also...Hot bacon dressing is the devil...it goes straight thru me..must be all the fat and oil.

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My gallbladdar was removed during my pregnancy with my 14 year old daughter.

Never over those past 14 years have I had a problem with any food that I could attribute to the gallbladdar remova.

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I had my gall bladder out many moons ago lol (22 years ago) and I STILL cannot eat a LOT of lettuce - a reasonable amount - but not a huge salad every day - and I can't eat popcorn AND any kind of carbonated beverage (aka diet pop) together (like at the movies) or I feel like I am going to die! I have to be careful of how much roughage I consume - that is the main issue for me

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I just had mine taken out two weeks ago. My band surgery is one week from now, so I have been eating little or no fat for a while now. My question is:

What foods upset your stomach now that your gall bladder is out?

Lettuce has been giving me fits, is this something that get better over time, or am I just stuck to a life with no salad?

The only thing I've had trouble with is Crystal Light. I drank it while recovering from Gallbladder surgery, and it made me really sick. Still does 4 years later.

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I had my gallbladder removed at same as my band in March. So far i havent noticed anything different in the things I can and cannot eat but then generally I am eating so much less than I used to...who knows what probs I might have had without band size portions?

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I had my gallbladder out 10 years ago & have not had any problems with anything at all. I have never been able to even tell my gallbladder was out except that I no longer had pains in my stomach area!! :eek:

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JenMomto3.

Hi I also had mine out many years ago 11, and I find that green peppers give me terrible heartburn. Pperoni bothered me for many years but now I can eat it and I'm happy and lettuce bothers me if I eat it in the evenings but during the day I guess when I'm moving about and it has time to digest it's no problem.

Other than that having my gallbladder out was such a relief from pain it was a godsent.

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I had my gallbladder out 4 years ago and can tolerate any foods. The purpose of the gallbladder is to store bile. When you take in a high fat food or meal, the body signals the gallbladder to release bile to help digest the fats.

Once the gallbladder is no longer there. The common bile duct constantly drips bile right into the gut. So, if you have a very fatty food or meal, you have no reserve of bile. For some people, this results in GI distress, diarrhea, etc.

I hope that helps and that you're recovering well.

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Mine has been out many years also. Never thought I had problems but I did have alot of diarrhea through the years. I guess that was what it was. Now with band and watching what I eat I have not had those problems for one year and three months. Yea.

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I haven't found anything that bothers me now that the gallbladder is gone. I haven't tried a lot of things since it's removal, about 4 months ago.

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